Archives for March 2011

During the late 17th Century, a succession of Pacific plundering pirates parked at the shores of the Galapagos Islands, bringing Norwegian and black rats, which were to have a devastating effect on the island's wildlife for years to come.
For … [Read more...]

Like Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Beauty and the Beast, and the transformation of a cup cake into fecal matter, cities too, have both a beautiful and an ugly side.
This is never more apparent than at Westminster Abbey, where sooty squatters brandishing … [Read more...]

With the current state of information technology, citizens of the Earth are becoming more informed on world news. Indeed, diverse political, scientific and religious ideas are creeping under household carpets like never before.
However, in Russia, … [Read more...]

Springing from European folklore, a wishing well is historically a sacred place, where the life giving body of water could house one's dreams and grant them true.
Well guardians would protect the healing powers of water before bestowing its magic … [Read more...]

Restricted to the confined spaces of civilised society, urine is typically scorned in public, while its colour, generally a pale yellow, is associated with disease and cowardly behaviour.
In fact, most choose not to talk of this undervalued golden … [Read more...]

Within the dark primordial crevices of the Brazilian jungle, lurks a creeping, poisonous and hostile creature, that could just well be the saviour of humanity.
Described as the world's most venomous spider by the 2010 Guinness World Records, the … [Read more...]